Day 86 Sunday 26 November, Kathmandu, Nepal

November 26, 2006

Day 86 Sunday 26 November, Kathmandu, Nepal

The boys go off to explore Durbar Square in Kathmandu whilst we sort out the car and make shopping lists. It's the clearest day so far in Kathmandu and there are excellent views of the mountains and surrounding hills. Dinner is a traditional Newari 10 course meal at Thamel House, a traditional Newari house converted to a restaurant and in additional to lots of undrinkable rakki or rice spirit which we think must be handy to fuel tractors and the sewing machine taxis, we have wild boar, mutton, chicken, dal, and several vegetable dishes.

Weather 22C Sunny
Distance today: 0 km
Distance from start: 15,974km

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WELCOME

Welcome to IntrepidToo - a journey around the world by road and sea. What started as a road trip from Sydney to Europe in a BMW X5 became the Clipper Round the World yacht race, sailing from Sydney to New York, and more recently a catamaran cruise along the Central American coast.

The road trip marked the completion of the Asian Highway Project, a UN sponsored initiative to provide a common standard road network linking all the countries of Asia with Europe. Along the way it entailed visiting as many UNESCO World Heritage sites as possible.

Due for imminent completion, our task was to find out how far they've got. It was also a quest to find the best creme brulee between Sydney and Sweden and the best margaritas outside Mexico.

The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is an 11 month long, 40,000nm race for amateur sailors in 12 identical 70' racing yachts, each with a crew of 18 and a professional skipper. We join in Australia for the legs to China, then across the North Pacific to Seattle and via the Panama Canal to New York, a voyage equivalent to the circumference of the globe.

It's also an occasional tale of continuing meanderings around the Middle East, Africa, Asia and anywhere else which takes our fancy.